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U.S. to settle Egyptian's lawsuit over 9/11 arrest
New York Times News Service Published February 28, 2006
NEW YORK -- The federal government has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by an Egyptian who was among dozens of Muslim men swept up in the New York area after Sept. 11, 2001, held for months in a federal detention center in Brooklyn and deported after being cleared of links to terrorism.
The settlement, filed in federal court late Monday, is the first the government has made in a number of lawsuits charging that non-citizens were abused and their constitutional rights violated in detentions after the terrorist attacks.
It removes one of two plaintiffs from a case in which a federal judge ruled last fall that former Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft, the director of the FBI and other top government officials must answer questions under oath. Government lawyers appealed that ruling Friday.
In the settlement, which requires approval by a federal judge in Brooklyn, lawyers for the government asserted that the officials were not admitting any liability or fault. In court papers, they have said that the Sept. 11 attacks created "special factors"--including the need to deter terrorism--that outweighed the plaintiffs' right to sue.
A spokesman for the Justice Department said officials would not comment on the agreement. But lawyers who represent both the Egyptian, Ehab Elmaghraby, and the second plaintiff, a Pakistani who is continuing to pursue the lawsuit, described the outcome as significant.
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